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		jbverschoor on Aug 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Faster Ruby: Thoughts from the outside The whole I/O is the bottleneck thing is the same as saying “memory is cheap”. It’s true in a way, but that doesn’t mean we should all ignore it. It’s usually not a big problem, until it is. I love Ruby, but I love crystal in terms of performance, except for compilation times.

nobleach on Aug 10, 2022 [–]

Crystal is just awesome. I doubt I'll have a chance to use it in a real app any time soon... but I've kept my eye on it for the past few years.

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